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Software development is art. Not science.
Storagebod had an interesting post asking why software sucks and why we don’t just slow things down and wait until it’s done right. I’ve thoughts of my own not directly related to his post but of...
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OneFS 7.0 - Bringing Scale-Out into the Heart of the Data Center
It’s big. It’s awesome. Mavericks. OneFS 7.0. I couldn’t be more excited to write about a release that has been near and dear to my heart for the last year and a half. Immediately following the...
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A quick note on VNX VAAI NFS plugin for vSphere 5.1
From an internal EMC vSpecialist thread (I’m trying to push people to ALWAYS post to the “Everything VMware at EMC” community or some other “google crawled place” (like a blog, including this one) –...
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Cisco Acquires Cloupia: No Such Thing As Too Many Choices
Last week’s announcement that Cisco has acquired Cloupia is one that I was excited about on a number of levels. First, the Cloupia team, including Raju Penmetsa, their CTO and Raju Datla, their CEO...
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Thinking about a stretched vCloud Director deployment
Lately I have been thinking about what it would take to deploy a stretched vCloud Director (vCD) infrastructure. “The problem” with a vCloud Director infrastructure is that there are so many moving...
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vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive only $17.95, limited time!
Frank and I decided to put the vSphere 5.1 Clustering Deepdive (paper copy) up for sale for only $ 17.95. This is a limited time offer (21st of December), so if you want to get yourself, your...
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Lotus: Killed by death.
‘Make him feel that he is dying.’ -Caligula Putting aside Gaius Caligula’s sadism in his instructions to the executioners of his victims, this week there are more than a few companies feeling like...
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Want to do some VMware Hands-on Labs but don’t have the kit?
Those who have visited VMworld and done a couple of labs know how awesome these are. Recently VMware announced that the VMware Hands-On Labs (HoL) would be made available online. You had the option to...
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What is that poweron file in my .vSphere-HA folder?
When answering some questions in the vSphere HA section of the VMTN forum the “poweron” file was mentioned. I have gotten some other questions as well about this file so a public blog post makes most...
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When Big Data Changed Radiology
This week is the annual gathering of the RSNA -- the Radiological Society of North America. And for many of us, it's not just another industry trade show: it's a microcosm of the powerful forces that...
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VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials by Peter Björk!
About a year ago one of my colleagues reached out with some questions around book publishing. Many people ask me questions around what it takes, hours involved etc etc, and unfortunately many decide...
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vCenter Extension error when deploying vSphere Replication?
I’ve seen this popping up fairly often now and was under the impression I wrote about it a while back, but can’t find it. So here you go. If during the deployment of an OVF, in this case vSphere...
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Changes: I am joining VMware R&D!
I just wanted to let all of you know that I have decided to take on a new challenge within VMware. Per December 1st I will be joining the R&D organization as part of Integration Engineering. In...
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That Zealot Moment
I end up doing more than my fair share of public speaking gigs on behalf of EMC. It can often be a tedious grind: travel, timezones, etc. -- all in exchange for a fleetingly brief speaking slot...
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Win A free copy of the ‘VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials’, just by leaving a...
For the contest we have two copies of VMware ThinApp 4.7 Essentials to be given away to two lucky winners. How you can win: To win your copy of this book, all you need to do is leave a comment below...
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Diving Deeper into Isilon OneFS 7.0
At Thanksgiving last week, I couldn’t help but feel cheesy as I thought about all the things I was thankful for. One of the many items on my list was what we’ve been able to achieve here at Isilon...
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Survey Time: vSphere FT
If you have a couple of spare minutes… please fill out this survey about vSphere FT, it would be very helpful for our Product Management team. It takes about 10 minutes to get through. "Survey Time:...
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vSphere 5.x Space Reclaim and EMC Symmetrix
While there’s a TON of stuff going on (in the middle-to-final parts of EMC 2013 planning), I haven’t done a post in a while. There’s plenty of great stuff, and I still haven’t been able to get...
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December Webcast Series!
Every week, Thursday is “EMC/VMware webcast Thursday!” (same bat time – 11-12ET + same bat channel – EMC Live) December has 3 sessions coming up. The first on the 6th is how we engineer VSPEX stacks...
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Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster
I had this question yesterday where the error “Insufficient resources to satisfy HA failover level on cluster” comes from. And although it is hopefully clear to all of my regular readers this is...
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